A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre.

Just because someone has gone to an elite school and college does not make him smarter than the person who has grown up on street knowledge.

I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.

I became completely addicted to 'Angry Birds' for a while.

The brain is not an organ we are authorized to use. We are supposed to use only our hands and legs.

I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.

I wonder what it feels like to have no desires left because you have satisfied them all, smothered them with money even before they are born. Is an existence without desire very desirable? And is the poverty of desire better than rank poverty itself?